| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| truculent |
extremely hostile or belligerent; inclined to fight. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |